In the 1920’s you moved to New England as part of the Great Migration. To try and find a job in the textile industry. Racism and discrimination meant you could only find a part time job at a grocery store. When all of the workers in a Fall River Massachusetts factory were drafted for the war you were finally given a job as the first black man at the factory making Army Uniforms. Your work in the uniform factory got you a promotion and a new job making gunnery turrets for b-22's. You had twenty men working under you and were the highest paid African American in the war production effort.
In the 1920’s you moved to New England as part of the Great Migration. To try and find a job in the textile industry. Racism and discrimination meant you could only find a part time job at a grocery store. When all of the workers in a Fall River Massachusetts factory were drafted for the war you were finally given a job as the first black man at the factory making Army Uniforms. Your work in the uniform factory got you a promotion and a new job making gunnery turrets for b-22's. You had twenty men working under you and were the highest paid African American in the war production effort.